3 others in the registry answer to the name Alexander. Every Alexander in the Bible
- verses
- 2
- first named
- 1 Timothy 1:20
- last named
- 2 Timothy 4:15
- period
- the New Testament
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Alexander?
Alexander is mentioned by Paul in his letters to Timothy as an individual who opposed his teaching and caused him harm. In the first letter to Timothy, Paul writes that he had handed Alexander and Hymenaeus over to Satan, so that they might learn not to blaspheme. (1Ti.1.20)
Hymenaeus and Alexander had apparently departed from the truth and were promoting false teachings that were contrary to Paul's message. By handing them over to Satan, Paul was likely indicating that he had removed them from the protection and fellowship of the church, allowing them to experience the consequences of their actions and hopefully leading them to repentance.
In the second letter to Timothy, written near the end of Paul's life, he mentions Alexander the coppersmith, who had done him great harm and strongly opposed his message. (2Ti.4.14) It is not clear whether this is the same Alexander mentioned in the first letter, but both individuals are portrayed as antagonists to Paul and his ministry.
Paul warns Timothy to be on guard against Alexander, suggesting that he posed a significant threat to the church and its teachings. Paul also expresses his trust in God's justice, stating that the Lord will repay Alexander for his actions. (2Ti.4.14)
These passages highlight the challenges and opposition that Paul and the early church faced from individuals who sought to undermine the gospel message and promote false teachings. They also demonstrate Paul's commitment to maintaining the purity of the church's doctrine and his willingness to take disciplinary action when necessary.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Alexander is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Timothy (1) and 2 Timothy (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
Sources